Hair-waver



H. M. SIEGEL.

HAIR WAVER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24, 1921.

1,385,797. Patented-JulyZG, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT oFF cE. J

; HENRY M. ,SIEGEL, or MALDEN, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Applicationfiled m 24,

To Z2whomitmay concern:

lie it known that I, HENRY M. SIEGEL, a citizen of the United States, residingat iiialdi-in, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hair-WVavers, of

which thefollowing is a specification, retercure being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My i 'enti'on is a 1 novel and improved means for imparting to the hair of the human head a seriesof transverse bends or undulatioi'is, on the order of that "commonly known Marcel wave. One purpose of my invention is to enable the user to impart such undulations,without the use of a curlhip; iron, or other application of heat, which tends to injure the quality of the hair and involves the risk of serious damage thereto. li'her objects are to enable the user to wave hair successfully even though not possessed of the hi gh degree of skill;-and manual dexterity required for successful use of heated appliances, and without the assistance, of 'ai-iothcr person; and alsoto leave the users hands free for other employment during the time while the said bends or undulations are impressing themselves upon the hair, or, as it is usualiy BXPIGSSBClf'Wl'IilG the wave is hecoming set.

lily invention consists in a hair waving device comprising a body portion, a transverse series of teeth at one end thereof to engage a lock of hair adjacent the scalp, a double series of oppositely-disposed cleats about which the hair may be looped in sinuous manner in an alternating succession, and a retaining finger at the other end to retain the free end of said lock of hair.

in illustrative embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawinns, in which,

Figure 1 illustrates 'a head with the invcntion applied as in use.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device.

3 is a side view thereof.

F 4 is a view in cross section on line 4, 4, of Fig. 2.

Having reference to the drawings,

While a device embodyingthe invention may be molded or cast as a whole from metal or composition, or made from separate component parts united in any well known manner, the preferred construction as regards economy of labor and. material, and for lightness, is to form the article from a single 21S fl Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Jilly 1921.

1921. Serial at; 472,214: 1

piece of sheet celluloid,metal, or other-approved .material, cut O11t,:staInpeCl and pressed intothe desired conformation.

:i'i hetra'nsverse rowpf teeth' l, 1 1 provided at one endof the device'isad'apted to be entered into the lock of hair that is to be waved, at the root-ends of the, hairs closely adjacent the user s scalp. The extremities or points of these teeth extend inward to ward the other end of the body-portion 2. The terminal tooth 1 atone end of the series, adjacent the first cleat, '4, at one side of the device, is made larger than the others in. order to render itlsomewhatstitfer and stronger, its ward thesur fa ce 0i" the body of the device, in order: to retain in place under the-same more effectually the portion of the lock which extends from the comb-teethto said cleat. To facilitate'the introduction of the lock under the said tooth or finger, the said free extremity thereof is somewhat recurved away from thesaidsurfaeex This finger or tooth serves'to holdina more orgless compact strand the portion of the hairwhich eX- tendsfroin the :said teeth to the first cle'at. The side of said heavier, tooth or fingerl? toward said first cleat 4 is cut awayto accommodate the hair between" the said side and the upstanding portion of the cle'at.

The lock of hair having been dampened with water or any other'suitalole medium, if necessary, it is wound tightly in undulating or zigzag manner around cleat 4, thence across the body-portion to the first clcat, 5, located upon the opposite lateral edge of the body portion, around said cleat 5 and back acrossthc body-portion to the second cleat 4, and so on throughout the length of the ap-v pliance. At the" other end of the appliance the locl: is held fast bypassing it under the retaining finger or clasp 7 at such end of the bodyportion, and by wrapping it around the said finger or clasp one or more times.

The body-portion 2 is preferably concaved longitudinally on its under side, to conform to the users head. The device is left in place until the hair dries, and as much longer as is is practicable, as the lasting qualities of the wave are in direct proportion to the length or time the undulations are allowed to set, or remain undisturbed upon the device. Thereupon the end of the lock of hair is disengaged from the retaining finger or clasp 7, and the lock is unwound from the cleats back to comb l, 1, 1 whereupon the free extremity being bent to ill) latter will be 'free to disengage from the hair.

The cleats 4, 4, 5, 5, preferably are ar ranged in the alternateor zigzag relation shown in the drawings, but are not necessar rily so disposed. They may be located op posite or abreast of each other across the body-pOrtiOn-Q; For thismanner of windin g the hair on, the cleats are constructed by forming the material. of which the device is composed into semicircular lateral p-roj ections having upstanding flanges4, 4, 5, 5, and outstanding lips 44", 4", 5 5 Preferably, also, tongues 4, 4, parallel with the lips 4 4 ,,land spaced therefromby the height of the upstanding flanges 4 4 are a provided by punching narrow portions out of the said semicircular lateral projections adapted "to and bending these tongues to extend outward in approximately the plane of the body-pow tion2 toca distance equal to the projection of the'lips 4 outward from the body-por tion.. 1

V The length of my device, and consequently the nu-mberiof cleats in the length of: the

series, isqdetermined by thelength of the portion of ones hair; which it is desiredto wave-j I claim as my invention, r --1.'.A hair-Waving device comprising a bodyportionprovided with a double series of cleats adapted to'have a lock of hair wound sinuously backand forth around the same in analternating succession, for forming a series of undulations or waves insaid lock, acomb at one end of said'body-portion I bee'ngaged in said look at or adjacent the root-ends of the hairs, and a lock retaining finger at the opposite endthereof;

around the cleats in an alternating succession,

a transverse series of inwardly facing comb teeth at one'end thereof adapted tobe entered into said lock its root-end, one of said teeth enlarged and shaped to clasp the lock of hair between the comb andthe adjoining cleat, anda lock-retaining finger at thejoppositeendo'fthe device.

4. A halr-waving device comprising a body-portion, a transverse series of teeth at one end thereof having their free extremities extending toward the center of the said body-portion, oppositely disposed cleats upon the body-portion arranged in alternate or staggered relation, and a lock-retaining finger at the other endof the body-portion.

5. A hairwaving device comprising a body-portion,- curved longitudinally to conform to the contour of the human head, a double series of upstanding cleats thereon, a transverse series of comb teeth at one end of said body --portion, and a hair-retaining finger at the other end thereof. 1 j V p In testimony whereoiil aflix my signatine in presence of two witnesses.

y, HENRY M. SIEGEL) -Witnesses: i i

a CHAS. F. RANDALL, E LEN OL SPRING. 

